StatusCSS 2.1correctsafewerrorsinCSS2(themostimportantbeinganewdefinition of thisdocumentThisdocumenthasbeenreviewedbyW3CMemberstheheight/widthofabsolutelypositionedelements,moreinfluenceforHTML's"style"attribute and otherinterestedpartiesanewcalculationofthe'clip'property), and hasaddsafewhighlyrequestedfeatureswhichhavealready been endorsedbytheDirectoraswidelyimplemented.ButmostofallCSS 2.1represents a W3CRecommendation."snapshot"ofCSSusage: it consistsofallCSSfeaturesthatareimplementedinteroperablyatthedateofpublicationoftheRecommendation.

CSS 2.1 is astabledocumentderivedfromandisintendedtoreplaceCSS2.SomepartsofCSS2areunchangedinCSS 2.1,somepartshavebeenaltered, and somepartsremoved.Theremovedportions may be used asinafutureCSS3specification.FuturespecsshouldrefertoCSS 2.1(unlesstheyneedfeaturesfromCSS2whichhavebeendroppedinCSS 2.1,andthentheyshouldonly reference materialCSS2forthosefeatures, or citedasanormativepreferably reference fromanotherdocument.W3C'srolesuchfeature(s) in makingtheRecommendationistodrawattentiontothe specificationandtopromoteitswidespreaddeployment.respectiveCSS3Modulethatincludesthosefeature(s)).

Statusofthisdocument

This enhancessectiondescribes the functionalityandinteroperabilitystatus of thisdocumentat the Web.timeofitspublication.Otherdocumentsmaysupersedethisdocument. A list of
current W3C Recommendationspublications and otherthelatestrevisionofthis technical
documentsreport can be found intheW3Ctechnicalreportsindex at http://www.w3.org/TRhttp://www.w3.org/TR/.

PublicdiscussionThisworkingdraftcontainsmost of CSSfeaturestakesplacethechangesthatresultedfromcomments on www-style@w3.org.Availableformatsthe CSS2specificationpreviousdraft,butnotallofthem.It is availablepublished
in the followingformats:HTML:http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-CSS2-19980512hopethatitcanhelppeoplecheckthatthosechangesarecorrect.Itisexpectedthatthenextpublicationwillbe a plainCandidateRecommendation.

Publication as a zipfile(thisWorkingDraftdoesnotimplyendorsementbytheW3CMembership.This is a '.zip'filenotan'.exe'):http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-CSS2-19980512/css2.zip,aswelldraftdocumentandmaybeupdated,replacedorobsoletedbyotherdocumentsatanytime.Itisinappropriatetocitethisdocument as otherthanworkinprogress.

A gzip'edPostScriptfile:http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-CSS2-19980512/css2.ps.gz,testsuite and a PDFfile:http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-CSS2-19980512/css2.pdf.IncasereportonimplementationswillbeprovidedbeforethedocumentbecomesaProposedRecommendation.

CandidateRecommendationExitCriteria

For this specification istoexit the onlynormativeversion.However,CRstage,thefollowingconditionsmustbemet:

Theremustbeatleasttwointeroperableimplementations
for translationseveryfeature.Forthepurposesofthiscriterion,wedefinethefollowingterms:

feature

Asectionorsubsectionofthespecification.

interoperable

passingtherespectivetestcasesinthetestsuite,or,iftheimplementationisnotawebbrowser,equivalenttests.EveryrelevanttestinthetestsuiteshouldhaveanequivalenttestcreatedifsuchaUAistobeusedtoclaiminteroperability.
In additionifsuchaUAistobeusedtoclaiminteroperability,thentheremustoneormoreadditionalUAswhichcanalsopassthoseequivalenttestsinthesamewayforthepurposeofinteroperability.Theequivalenttestsmustbemadepubliclyavailableforthepurposesofpeerreview.

implementation

auseragentwhich:

implementsthefeature.

isavailable(i.e.publiclydownloadableoravailablethroughsome other languagesseehttp://www.w3.org/Style/css2-updates/translations.html.Erratapublicpointofsalemechanism).Thisis the
list"showme"requirement.